Don't Believe The Hype - The Intel NUC 9 Is Probably NOT For You!

The Intel NUC 9 Extreme is an odd concept. The NUC 9 Element cards will be expensive when they're released, airflow is terrible and older mobile CPUs are being used. But there may actually be some use for the NUC 9 Extreme.

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[MrAdhiSuryana]

This NUC system was design with Intel still have CPU leadership in mind. So they can even milk more money from consumer...
Fortunately it doesn't happen

[snuke]

And it's not even like the case is super small: the ghost canyon nuc is 5 liters while the pc velka 3 case is 3.7 liters of volume.

[Steveindajeep]

It almost seems like they went "hey we arent competing anywhere else...lets try competing in the small ITX space" and then failed there too.

[mitchell]

$1550 USD for a plastic case, loud af PSU, mobo, and an unlocked Intel mobile chip. My entire SFF build cost less than that

[Hotrob_J]

At first I was like "that's neat, you can get a whole second computer you can plug into a pcie slot!" then I realized it's just a SFF computer with less customizability and repairability and extra steps

[NoWay]

I'd love to see AMD do something like this with comparable integrated graphics to a next-gen console. At the right price, that would sell.

[GkyAli]

if this takes off, I guess we'll just have to wait for AMD to come up with something similar for half the price

[altonho]

i could literally do a velka 3 build and get a similar amount of performance and a few times cheaper

[awsan]

So I can get a laptop that is as fast or even faster for the same price.

Why the hell would any one take this instead of an itx or a laptop???

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[diegos]

Eber, that is a FLEX ATX PSU, isn't it? Not an SFX as mentioned. This thing... It's dumb, is what it is. The previous NUCs were nice. Expensive, sure, but nice. REALLY compact and decent power. This new one - compared to a regular case that uses Flex ATX power supplies with ITX motherboards and short GPUs - delivers waaay less perfomance, is SUPER more expensive, and pretty much the same size. The only thing interesting is potentially using that "element card" as a second computer when plugged into a PCIe slot. But that is only provided that they could find a way to incorporate the power reception without adding any more bulk.

[ZAR]

Hardly Repairable, Not Upgradable, More Expensive, Underpowered

Sound like Greedy Wicked business strategy
😕

I hope it stop here and now

[szalkerous]

The sole purpose I want this is for an ultracompact streaming rig for offloading 4K encoding/processing/streaming to a dedicated box. I can't find a single thing about this unit that doesn't fit the criteria fully.

[troyn]

thank you, most people had semi positive review/ comments i was instantly like wtf is this bs ? and fuck intel for this coolermaster could have made that fit a itx board and price it at <$200 instead of making this shit -.-

[aradhyakumar]

last time i was this early AMD was still running hot and intel was still on 14nm

[Henningberlin]

the design is really nice imo and I would like to see it also with AMD CPUs, BUT with way more realistic pricing, like 250€ for 6 cores, upgradable + 100€ motherboard = 350€, lets say maximum 500€

[Charsept]

The pricing is insane to me so I'm not getting one

But I'm curious to know if you could put one in your full sized PC case along with your main system?

[spidey]

I don't understand two things. 1) The price and 2) why didn't Intel design the thing so that the CPU and GPU are drawing air in on opposite sides of the case?

[LOKOBach]

To me the good thing about this approach was just having another option to make small builds, but really love the idea of using mobile processors for tiny desktops.

[xpeterson]

In my mind it makes so much sense that - in the future, to build your own PC, the components would look something like:

a CPU attached to a board
an optional GPU attached to a board
upgradeable RAM on the CPU board
upgradeable VRAM on the GPU board
both the CPU and GPU boards connect to a main board that connects to storage and power, and contains all the IO
low profile blower style coolers on the CPU and GPU that can be swapped out using a standard mounting method for both